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The Refraction of Space: A Radical Reversal of Direction

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Spatial Cognition VII (Spatial Cognition 2010)

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The field of spatial cognition began nearly fifty years ago. In the early years, Kevins Lynch’s The Image of the City was an inspirational icon for many while Kenneth Boulding’s The Image and E.C. Tolman’s “Cognitive maps in rats and men” provided succinct but elementary philosophical and psychological groundings.

The disciplinary roots of the field were disparate: architecture and landscape architecture, planning, psychology, geography, sociology, economics, and anthropology were the principal sources of scholars. If for the moment we take psychology as a benchmark for comparison, all of the other disciplines had some things in common in their approaches to spatial cognition.

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  1. Penn State University, 312B Walker Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA

    Roger Downs

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  1. Center for Cognitive Science, Institute of Computer Science and Social Research, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Friedrichstraße 50, 79098, Freiburg, Germany

    Christoph Hölscher

  2. Department of Psychology, Temple University, Weiss Hall 1701 North 13th Street, 19122-6085, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Thomas F. Shipley  & Nora S. Newcombe  & 

  3. Department of Psychology, ’Sapienza’ University of Rome, Via dei Marsi 78, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Marta Olivetti Belardinelli

  4. FB 10, Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Sciences, University of Bremen, Building GW2, Bibliothekstraße 1, 28334, Bremen, Germany

    John A. Bateman

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Downs, R. (2010). The Refraction of Space: A Radical Reversal of Direction. In: Hölscher, C., Shipley, T.F., Olivetti Belardinelli, M., Bateman, J.A., Newcombe, N.S. (eds) Spatial Cognition VII. Spatial Cognition 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6222. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14749-4_3

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